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Toponymic Analysis of Three Lienzos from the Mixtec Lowlands, Oaxaca Translation of the Spanish by Kim Goldsmith FAMSI © 2008: Laura Rodríguez Cano Toponymic Analysis of Three Lienzos from the Mixtec Lowlands, Oaxaca Translation of the Spanish by Kim Goldsmith Research Year: 2001 Culture: Mixtec Chronology: Pre-Classic Location: Oaxaca, México Site: Mixtec Lowlands, Huajuapan de León, San Juan Bautista Suchitepec, San Vicente el Palmar Table of Contents Abstract Resumen Introduction The Region of the Lienzos The Lienzos Studied Postcortesan Mixtec Codex No. 36 (CMP36) Glosses from Lienzo 57 Map of Xochitepec Toponymic Analysis What Does the Toponym Imply? Initial Premises Stages of Analysis Results and Contributions Acknowledgements Appendix: Illustrations That Accompany the Text Sources Cited Abstract This final report deals with the results and contributions achieved by the analysis of glyphs regarding names of places and glosses in Latin characters related to Mixtec and Nahuatl languages, associated with the graphic toponymics which are represented in three lienzos from the Mixtec Lowlands, Oaxaca. Using a holistic methodology which involves epigraphic, linguistic and ethnohistoric points of view, this study provides new information about the composition of place names in this region’s traditional native system of writing during the Colonial Period, as well as some data about the formation of the political areas of the different domains in the Mixtec Lowlands. Resumen Este informe final trata de los resultados y aportes que se lograron con el análisis de los registros glíficos de los nombres de lugar y las glosas en caracteres latinos en lengua mixteca y náhuatl que se encuentran asociados a los topónimos gráficos que están representados en tres lienzos de la Mixteca Baja, Oaxaca. El estudio a través de una metodología holística que involucra enfoques epigráficos, lingüísticos y etnohistóricos, proporciona nueva información sobre la composición de los nombres de lugar en el sistema de escritura tradicional indígena de esta región durante el periodo colonial así como algunos datos sobre la conformación del espacio político de los señoríos de la Mixteca Baja. Submitted 03/04/2002 by: Laura Rodríguez Cano 2 Introduction This study, as part of my doctoral thesis, deals with the toponymy and political structure of the territories in the Mixtec Lowlands, Oaxaca, Mexico, based on the study of three lienzos from the XVI century. The central theme is the analysis of the place names represented in said lienzos, which on the one hand allows us to understand whether the signs are logographic and if they reflect characteristics of the language they codify, and on the other gives us information about the territorial make up of the Mixtec seigniories in the region during the Early Colonial Period. In order to identify the toponymic glyphs, the study was based methodologically in the iconographic analysis of Panofski (1972) and an internal and external comparative method, as well as a focus on epigraphy, linguistics, ethnohistory and oral tradition (Smith, 1973; Pohl, 1994; Hermann, 1994). These authors general objectives were to propose alternative analyses to decipher the meaning and localization of the place names represented in these documents, as well as to understand the prehispanic political geography and the processes of change during the Colonial Period in the Mixtec Lowlands through the study of the toponymic registers on these three lienzos. In this report, I present the results and contributions obtained from the toponymic analysis of the lienzos from the Mixtec Lowlands known as Postcortesan Mixtec Codex No. 36 (CMP36), Map of Xochitepec (MX) and Glosses from Lienzo 57 (L57) (Plate 1, Plate 2 and Plate 3). The lienzos are Colonial documents that may be accompanied by files, but in the case of the three lienzos examined for this study, if they had files at one time they are now missing. These lienzos are very interesting due to the quantity of toponymic registers that are represented on them with relation to the towns or borders that mark or indicate the political space of the seigniory or central settlement in which these lienzos were very possibly made. 3 Plate 1: Photograph of the Postcortesan Mixtec Codex No. 36. Seminary of Mexican Codices. 4 Plate 2: Photograph of the Lienzo 57 glosses, taken from the "Memorial de Linderos Gráfica Agraria de Oaxaca. Documentos del Archivo Histórico de la Secreatriá de la Reforma Agraria en Oaxaca". 5 Plate 3: Ovelay photograph from the National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. 6 The Region of the Lienzos The style presented in the lienzos situates them in the Mixteca region, one of the regions1 of the State of Oaxaca, defined based on geographic, linguistic and cultural criteria. It is located to the west of the State of Oaxaca, which is found between the 16° and 18° parallels 15’ north and between the 97° and 98° meridians 30’ west. Its geographic limits surpass the actual political division of the State of Oaxaca, and additionally reaches: to the west, the States of Guerrero and Puebla; to the north, it follows the basin of the Atoyac River in the south of the State of Puebla until it comes to the Cuicatlan Gorge in Oaxaca; to the east, its limit is the region of the Gorge and the Central Valleys of Oaxaca; to the southeast it is adjacent to Miahuatlan and Pochutla, and, finally; to the south, with the Pacific Ocean (Plate 4). This extensive territory is divided into three subregions which, according to their geographical characteristics, are known from south to north as (Dahlgren, 1990): The Mixtec Coastal Region, which includes the southwestern portion, corresponding with the Oaxacan coasts; The Mixtec Highlands, which covers the central section and has its limits to the east with the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, and, third; the Mixtec Lowlands, situated in the northwest part of the state of Oaxaca (Plate 4). This last Mixtec subregion, known principally due to geographic criteria as the Mixtec Lowlands, is that which especially interests us since various authors (Caso, 1958; Smith, 1973; Smith and Parmenter, 1991) have proposed that these lienzos come from the northern area of the Mixtec Lowlands, in the district of Huajuapan. Said area is where the largest concentration of Ñuiñe-style monuments have been found, particularly in the localities of Huajuapan de León,2 San Juan Bautista Suchitepec3 and San Vicente el Palmar4 (Plate 4). The Mixtec Lowlands is a region shaped by a series of orographic accidents and valleys. It is situated, as we have mentioned, to the northwest of the State of Oaxaca, taking in three Districts: Huajuapan de León, Silacayoapan and Juxtlahuaca. However, its geographic limits surpass the political division of Oaxaca and extend toward the southwest of Puebla and the northwest of the State of Guerrero (Rodríguez, 1996). It is notorious that the developments in the Post Classic, according to Colonial sources (since the archaeological evidence is practically nil), make us think that the socio- 1 The number of regions in Oaxaca varies from eight to thirteen. Part of the difference is because there are authors who consider Mixteca as one whole region and others divide it in three regions (see Winter, 1989 and Rodrigo, 1997 in regards to this). 2 The argument is based on Smith’s identification (1973) from a gloss inscribed within the Lintel of the right temple, which is located in the center of CMP36 where huayñodi, one of Huajuapan’s mixtec names from the XVI century which is ñudee or ñodii (hot town), is recorded. The gloss literally records house (huay/huahi), town (ño/ñu), and hot (dii/ndii). 3 In this map which shows mixtec glosses, Caso (1958) proposes the only location where mixtec speakers for the XVI century are known is Suchitepec de Oaxaca, for this reason the glosses are provenienced from this town, since the town is from the district of Huajuapan de León. 4 In the appendix that Smith and Parmenter show (1991), they present a general description of San Vicente el Palmar map, which is an original that has since been lost, and which corresponds to the copy located in the Archivo Agrario Nacional de Oaxaca (ARANO). This means it is possible that is the same record and that liezo 57 glosses comes from this location named San Vicente el Palmar. 7 political dynamic of the northern and southern areas established narrow relationships with the seigniories of the Mixtec Highlands, Coixtlahuaca and the south of Puebla. Plate 4: Location of the area and loacalities from which the lienzos in this study originated. The Lienzos Studied In this section I present a brief description of the contents and general characteristics of the lienzos studied, giving consideration to their actual location, copies, publications and previous studies, format, measurements, support, manufacturing technique, theme, etc. 8 The Postcortesan Mixtec Codex No. 36 (CMP36): The CMP36 is currently housed in the repository at the Biblioteca del Museo Nacional de Antropología (BMNAH). Nevertheless, there is an excellent, full-sized photograph at the Museo Regional de Huajuapan de León with which the Board of said museum allowed us to work under the best conditions in which to obtain the graphic and photographic registers, as well as an adequate reading for the paleography of the glosses that appear on the lienzo. The first news of this lienzo, according to Glass (1964) can be found in the inventory of manuscripts of Eduard Seler in 1907.5 Later the document was reproduced by Rosado Ojeda in 1945, at which time she studied the glosses in Mixtec on the lienzo without translating them, and described the pictographically represented toponyms using the monumental work of Peñafiel6 for support. Glass, in his guide to ethnohistoric sources from the Handbook of Middle American Indians, adds another reference to a brief description of the same lienzo done by Alcina Franch in 1955.7 Later, in the 70’s, Mary Elizabeth Smith (1973) included an identification of a central place represented and the translation of the glosses read by Ojeda thirty years earlier.
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